Just a Thought...And a Few Questions

I was at work today (I work for a consulting firm, so my job changes as the projects change...this project has a lot of data entry into an excel spreadsheet...so I have to listen to music to keep my sanity) and was listening to some of my favorite music. I am a huge EAGLES fan! It catches people off guard (due to my history of working in the church) for people to hear that my all time favorite song in the world is "Hotel California" (I do think it has a very interesting message...but that is another post) Sorry, I'm chasing the hare from a couple of posts ago! :) Anyway, one of the Eagles all time greatest songs, Desperado began to softly play through my earphones. I began to think, there is a really good life lesson being taught by this song and with just a small amount of imagination...could be a great sermon. So sit back and relax, your about to really see how my strange mind works. :)



Desperado
The Eagles

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
You've been out ridin' fences,
for so long - now.
(How many times in life does it feel that we ride and ride in life, but can never really find what it is that we are looking for?...Just a question)
Ohh you're a hard one.
I know that you've got your reasons.
(I look back on the times in my life - and they still happen from time to time - when I felt the coldest and hardest toward others, God, even myself. The one constant in every memory comes in this...I truly thought that I had a very good reason - or reasons - for feeling the way I did. The hardness that was within me was very justified...from my point of view.)
These things that are pleasin'you
Can hurt you somehow.
(With a show of hands....How many of us can say that things that we thought would bring us the most joy either don't last or actually bring us more pain? Think about that for a moment. Think about the things in your life that you have tried to fill that void with, did it work?...Just another question)

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy
She'll beat you if she's able.
(Diamonds, things that make the eyes widen. Diamonds, a girl's best friend. Diamonds, something that is very "precious" and worth a lot of money in this world. But, do they really bring happiness? I have seen people with all the money, wealth, "diamonds" in the world and still not have any sense of peace and happiness. What brings real happiness?)
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.
(Things of the heart. Family, Friends, Faith...those are the things of the heart...those are always the best bet...those are what bring real happiness.)
Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table.
But you only want the ones
That you can't get.
(Why is it that we never seem content with what we have in life? If we all took some time to sit and look at what we have been given in life, I am sure that we could all find something that can be considered "some fine things". Yet, we always seem to desire the things we can not have and therefore never find that peace that true contentment can bring.)

Desperado,
Ohhhh you aint getting no younger.
Your pain and your hunger,
They're driving you home.
(Two thoughts here: (1)The older I get the more I realize that the things that use to really get under my skin, do not seem as important; and the things that use to be put on the "back burner" are now the things that I want to spend my time on pursuing. (2)Whenever I hear this I think of the story of the Prodigal Son in scripture.)
And freedom, ohh freedom.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
(Freedom - that is a very funny word. I see the things that this world is trying to sell to the people with the promise of freedom attached to them. They do not bring freedom...they bring bondage. The most amazing thing about freedom is that it comes through making ourselves slaves. By becoming a slave to Christ, we find the true FREEDOM that only a loving God such as He can give.)

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine.
It's hard to tell the night time from the day.
(Do you ever feel that you don't know which way is up?...Just another question)
And you're losing all your highs and lows
aint it funny how the feeling goes
away...
(When everything "goes away" what are you left with? We can try to hide our pain with all kinds of different things...things that bring highs and things that bring lows, but sooner or later we will be standing face to face with this pain. Then what? Another question)

Desperado,
Why don't you come to your senses?
come down from your fences, open the gate.
(I think there is scripture that something like this....:)
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you.
You better let somebody love you.
(let sombody love you)
You better let somebody love you...ohhh..hooo
before it's too..oooo.. late.
(Hey Desperado's of the world - that includes me -, I have a good idea as to where to start on that "let somebody love you" idea....Jesus. Oh and by the way, all the questions brought out above...they can be answered with the same person.)
God Bless you all :)